Derek Shomon

Yeah, so a fair amount of interaction just as recently as yesterday.

We had gotten together on a call, and my first impressions are it's very, very impressive.

Will Venable is a very impressive individual.

I will tell you that when I was hired, I received several phone calls about Will, just how much you're going to like working alongside Will and like coaching under Will as a manager.

He is highly, highly intelligent.

He's organized.

His temperament is great.

very much good for a person like me that's a little bit...

Oh, a little bit more aggressive and loud at times.

And like that contrast, I think is super healthy both ways.

So Will alongside Walker, the bench coach, again, like highly intelligent guy, super organized.

Like I think you can just go down the staff and you feel really, you feel really good about it and you feel very fortunate to be a part of it.

But like kudos to, you know, front office and those that were involved in these hiring processes.

Right.

So the initial thought is it's impressive and I'm super excited to be a part of it.

Yeah.

I think like person first mentality, right?

Like we have to humanize them.

We have to like consider that always and let that kind of be like a blueprint into the next step that you want to take.

But you, you love hard on them.